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Press Kit

Press Kit.

If you’re writing about us — for a magazine, a podcast, a conference deck or a sustainability report — here is the boilerplate, the founder bio, and the numbers we’re willing to commit to in print.

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We answer every inquiry by email — usually inside one business day. No phone, no robocalls, no junk.

One-line boilerplate

IBC Denver is a Denver-based reconditioner, transporter and reseller of used IBC totes — the most stubbornly sustainable container company west of the Mississippi.

Three-line boilerplate

Founded in 2008 in a Denver driveway, IBC Denver buys, sells, reconditions, transports, recycles and reinvents intermediate bulk containers — better known as IBC totes. The company has diverted more than 14,300 totes from landfill, avoided an estimated 457,000 kilograms of CO₂-equivalent emissions, and built a closed-loop reuse model around the principle that the greenest tote is the one that already exists. IBC Denver maintains a strict email-only customer model and famously does not have a phone number.

Founder bio

Aldo Ramírez is the founder and operating partner of IBC Denver. A former chemical-distribution truck driver, he started the company in 2008 by washing four used totes in his driveway and selling them on Craigslist. He still personally answers customer emails on Saturday mornings and has, on more than one occasion, been mistaken for the company’s janitor by visiting suppliers. He is fluent in English, Spanish and the secret language of butterfly valves.

Numbers we will commit to in print (FY 2025)

  • 14,300+ IBC totes reborn since 2008
  • 457,600 kg CO₂-equivalent avoided (lifetime)
  • 3.9 million pounds of HDPE diverted from landfill (lifetime)
  • 0 pounds of material to landfill (every year since 2023)
  • 38 lower-48 states served
  • 0 phone numbers, since 2013, on purpose

Approved imagery

We don’t pre-shoot stock photos for media use. If you need photography, email us — we will arrange a 30-minute walk-through of the Denver yard and you can shoot what you like. We ask that you don’t identify customer names on tote labels in publication.

Story angles we like

  • The hidden carbon cost of single-use industrial packaging
  • Why a tote yard in Denver became a national supplier
  • Email-only customer service as a competitive feature
  • Closed-loop reuse models in the chemical and food supply chain
  • The Reborn Wall: what happens to a tote after its 4th refill

What we won’t talk about

  • Customer-specific contracts or volumes
  • Pricing for specific named buyers
  • Speculation about competitors

Sample interview questions and answers

If you are a journalist or podcaster looking for the kinds of answers we typically give, here are five sample questions and short answers we have used in past interviews.

"What does IBC Denver actually do?"

"We buy used IBC totes, recondition them in our Denver bay, and resell them at half the price of new. We also pick up empties from companies that have them piling up, transport totes around the lower 48, and recycle the small percentage that cannot be reborn. Five services, one closed loop."

"Why don't you have a phone number?"

"Two reasons. Technical quotes for tanks should be in writing so nothing gets misheard, and phones are how robocallers find small companies. We took the number off our cards in 2013 and have answered every customer message in writing since."

"What is the most surprising thing about your business?"

"How small the carbon footprint of reuse is compared to new manufacture. Each reborn tote saves about 32 kilograms of CO₂. After 14,000 reborn totes, that math compounds into something larger than the entire annual footprint of our office building."

"Who are your customers?"

"Anyone who stores liquid in bulk between drum-size and tank-truck-size. Agriculture, food and beverage, brewing, cosmetics, water treatment, construction, oil and gas, and a long tail of hobby DIYers. The IBC tote is the most-used object in bulk-liquid logistics that the average person has never thought about."

"What do you want the next ten years to look like?"

"More totes living more lives. The reborn share of the North American IBC market is around 22% by some estimates. In Europe it is over 50%. We think the United States can get to similar numbers, and we want to be a small part of how that happens."

Key messages we use repeatedly

If you are condensing the IBC Denver story into a single line for a headline or a caption, any of these will accurately represent us.

  • "The most stubbornly sustainable IBC tote company in the West."
  • "14,000 reborn totes, 3.9 million pounds of plastic kept out of landfill."
  • "Founded in 2008 in a Denver driveway. Now serving 38 states."
  • "Email-only since 2013. Customers prefer it."
  • "Five services. One closed loop. Zero pounds to landfill."

Recognition we have received

We are deliberately not on any awards circuit and we do not pursue industry recognition. The recognition we have received that we are most proud of is incidental and word-of-mouth:

  • Featured in a 2023 Denver Post profile of small Front Range companies with unusual sustainability metrics.
  • Cited as a supplier by name in two customers' annual sustainability reports.
  • Used as a case study in a graduate-level packaging engineering course at a state university whose name we have been asked not to publish but who returns to us for occasional Q&A sessions.
  • Mentioned in a 2024 piece on the trade publication Packaging Digest about the maturing of the IBC reuse market.
  • Continuously rated 5 stars on the small handful of online review sites where customers have left reviews. Our policy is to never solicit reviews; the ones we have were left voluntarily.

If you would like to visit and report from the yard

We have hosted journalists, podcast producers, sustainability consultants, B-school case-study writers, and one local high school journalism class. We are happy to host more. The standard offer is a 2-3 hour visit including a walk through the bay, time with the team, photographs of any non-customer-confidential angle, and a coffee at the small Mexican lunch counter half a block away. Email us at hello@ibcdenver.com with the outlet name, your deadline, and the angle you are working on.

Press kit downloads

We do not maintain a downloadable press kit packet. If you need specific assets — high-resolution photos, founder portrait, logo files, biography text — email us with the specific items you need and we will assemble and send them within one business day.